PCT4263784: A dandy piegan. Around 1855, the young men began to make a parting in their hair from one temple to the other and to curl their back with a wand of a pre-heated rifle. Some made nates, others didn't. Photo taken from volume 6 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263786: The sheep-sheep hunter, Sioux. Mountain sheep, grazing in the most inaccessible parts of the Bad Lands, were sought only by the most daring hunters. Photo taken from volume 3 of Edward S. Curtis's encyclopedia (1868-1952) on North American Indians, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263793: Crow Eagle, Piegan. In ancient times of traditional customs and laws, they were based on customs, especially in their social relations, and these constraints were largely part of their religion. A custom worthy of attention is the intensive use of the pipe. When they lit it, they made it touch earth and put it to heaven in a silent prayer to the spirits. Every significant act of their day was preceded by this rite. Photo taken from volume 6 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263805: Two Leggings, Apsaroke, did about 1848. His visions did not give him great powers, and he was admitted to a secrete tobacco society by Bull Goes Hunting, who gave him his amulet made of a fossil or a coarsely sulptee stone in the form of a two-sided horse. Two Leggings thus became a great warlord. Photo taken from volume 4 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263860: Medicine Crow, Apsaroke. The falcon tied to its head is a way of carrying the symbol of its guardian spirit. Photo taken from volume 4 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published. ©Gusman/Leemage, Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4261817: postcard war 1914-1918 sent in 1917: glorious soldier wearing a helmet of the navy laying at your guard between two French flags, above a ratelier of weapons abundantly filled with swords, swords, bayonets of all kinds and rifle bullets., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4260893: Grandville engraving, extracted from the book Private and Public Life of Animals (Les animaux ints par them memes), edition Hetzel 1867 - Caricature of a human political assembly - In the travees occupied by various animals (dogs, donkey, hippo...), a hyena makes a hate speech: It is not a question of barking, but of biting., Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4260936: Cartoon d'animaux - soldats: Grandville engraving, extracted from the book Private and Public Life of Animals (“Les animaux ints par eux memes”), Hetzel edition 1867 p. 561 - Chapter entitled “Tablets of the Giraffe”, written by Charles Nodier. Extract from the text: “” The occasion of these massacres is usually the sound nothing called a word, or the indefinable nothing called an idea. In the absence of the natural weapons that the wise forecast of Providence has denied to man, he has invented, for these horrific collisions, instruments of death that infallibly destroy all that they touch and which are generally copies of those whose nature has equipped the Animals for their defense; they are seen carrying alongside the thigh, with a sort of of pride, a long and pointed sword like that of the Unicorn or a curved and sharp sword like that of the Grasshopper.”, Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4264735: Interview in 1023 of Henri 2 (known as the lame and the saint, 973-1024), German Emperor (Duke of Baviere and King of Germania) and Robert 2 the Pieux (970-1031), King of France from 996 to his death. Robert was the son of Hugues Capet, whose coronation in 987 marked the beginning of the Capetian dynasty, which returned to France, in direct or indirect succession, for 8 years. Engraving by Victor Adam (1801-1866) in the book “France in the Middle Ages” published by the Ardant brothers in the middle of the 19th century., Adam, Victor (1801-66) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4264765: Philippe Auguste (Philip 2, 1165-1223, king of France from 1180 until his death), victory over the English at Mantis in 1188. Engraving by Victor Adam (1801-1866) in the book “France in the Middle Ages” published by the Ardant brothers in the middle of the 19th century., Adam, Victor (1801-66) / Bridgeman Images